Christine Grandy

Brits overestimate the amount of Muslims in the UK by 350%.

Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5 The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc

"[U]sable pasts can create elegiac narratives, calls to arms and empathetic dramas, but they can also lead to historical orthodoxies that marginalise the hidden, the silenced and the inarticulate."

A rich review essay on the 1984/5 miners' strike by Keith Gildart.

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So say many.

Chris, you're opening the door to the potentially infinite discussion of 'dry cold' vs 'damp cold' that defines these two lands.

Love it and I see you got the full Montreal treatment (snow and cold!).

Writing history in a time of genocide Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?

What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?

Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.

As historians, we depend on libraries and library staff, and we owe it to our library colleagues to show up for them. It would be great to see more historians sign!

I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

This looks great and is open access. Amelia Acker, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms

Thank you Sadiah!

My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!

It is absolutely up your alley, knowing your work Ben!

This looks great and what a wonderful cover!

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

I hear you on the oof of it. It's A LOT of oof to be honest.

I thought you might be into those ones! Hope all's well!

Thanks James and yes, Flamingo, Tropic, Checkers and Bronze. All the good stuff, as you know!

Thanks Liam!

Thanks Dave and always game for a podcast!

Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!

Teaching Slavery This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?

Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

A banner advert for Matt Houlbrook’s new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London

There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.

I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.

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A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more.

Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.

#envhist

And here is the table of contents.

✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...

The latest in our Creative History in the Classroom cluster, edited by @luciejones83.bsky.social and me. Great piece.

Awesome. Love this.

YouTube video by FX Networks The Lowdown | Official Trailer | Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Keith David | FX

Trailer for The Lowdown-->Ethan Hawke, Sterlin Harjo, Tulsa history. YES. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9b....

Thanks Heidi. The chapter on offensiveness sounds great!